Exit Polls: Whites Flee Democrats

Democrats attracted fewer white voters on Election Day than in any other midterm election since World War II, according to a RealClearPolitics report. Republicans won whites in Tuesday's U.S. House vote by a 22-percentage point margin (60 to 38 percent), according to exit polls.

Republicans won whites by just 4 points in 2006.

Whites defected at three times the rate of Hispanics between the two midterms — while the black vote remained fixed.

Democrats made out even worse than in 1994 — when Republicans won whites by 16 points (58 to 42 percent).

"Most whites have favored a smaller government over a bigger government for decades. Obama's agenda heralded the return of big government, or active-state liberalism. He gave the boldest liberal push since the Great Society," writes David Paul Kuhn for RealClear Politics.

Democrats attracted fewer white voters on Election Day than in any other midterm election since World War II, according to a RealClearPolitics report. Republicans won whites in Tuesday's U.S. House vote by a 22-percentage point margin (60 to 38 percent), according to exit...